Attachment for stoves



M. F. TREMAIN.

ATTACHMENT FOR STOVES. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 3. 1919.

Patented June 17, 1919.

MALVINA F. TREMAIN, DIE WESTFIELID, PENNSYLVANIA.

ATTACHMENT FOR STOVES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 17, acre.

Application filed February 3, 1919. Serial No. 274,651.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MALVINA F. TREMAIN,

a citizen of the United States, residing at WVestfield, in the county of Tioga and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Attachments for Stoves, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an attachment for stoves whereby the oven doors may be held partly open when it is desired to reduce the oven temperature as is oftentimes necessary when cooking certain articles of food, and which method of cooling is the only practical one with the ordinary coal and wood stoves.

It is the aim of this invention to provide a catch or attachment of this character which may be removed from in front of the oven door when not in use, and yet may be readily brought into position to engage the door or door handle when desired.

A further object of the invention is to so mount this catch or attachment on the stove that while it may be moved aside from in front of the oven door, said catch can not readily be entirely separated from the stove and become mislaid or lost.

Another object is to provide a catch of this character so mounted on the stove as to readily and automatically catch and hold the door in partly open position in the event of accidental dropping or opening of the door.

A still further object is to provide an attachment of this character whereby the door may be held open in a number of different positions.

Other objects will appear as the descrip tion proceeds.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein similar reference characters are used to designate corresponding parts in each of the several views Figure 1 is a front elevation of a cooking stove or range, showing the oven door catch or attachment mounted to slide and swing on the guard rail along the front edge of the top of the stove, said catch being shown moved out of the way in solid lines and in front of the oven door in dotted lines;

Fig. 2 is a detail sectional view taken vertically of the oven door and showing the catch in operation; and

Figs. 3 and 4 are detail rear and. side alevatione of the catch.

In Figs. land 2, a cooking range is indicated at 1, having a front guard rail or rod 2, extending along the front edge of its top. The oven door 3 is hinged at 4 along its bottom edge and is provided with a latch 5 operated by a hinged horizontally extending handle bar 6.

The catch 7 for holding the oven door partly open, as shown in Fig. 2, is pivotally and slidably mounted on the guard rail 2 and is adapted to he slid lengthwise thereon, and is also adapted to swing thereon away from the front of the stove so as to engage the handle bar 6 of the oven door. Said catch may have a plurality of hooks or notches 8 for retaining the oven door at different positions, that is, open to various de grees, allowing for the escape of more or less heat from the oven, as may be required under different cooking conditions. The upper end of the catch is formed with an eye or hub 9 which fits loosely around the guard rail 2 of the stove.

It is obvious that the catch 7 may be easily moved along the guard rail to and from a position in front of the oven door. When it is not to be used, said catch may he moved over to one end of the guard rail, as shown in solid lines in Fig. 1, where it is entirely out of the way and is far removed from the fire, so that it will not become too hot to handle. When it is to be used, the catch may be quickly moved along the guard rail to a position in front of the oven door, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, and one of the hooks'or notches S of said catch engaged with the handle bar 6, of the oven door, which will then be swung upward, as for releasing its latch, see Fig. 2.

The catch may be made as long as desired, to allow for different adjustments, but it will be noted that when not in use said catch does not protrude beyond the guard rail as would be necessary if it were fixed to the stove. On the contrary the catch always swings down by gravity so as to lie close to the front of the stove out of the way when not in use, and as it may also be moved aside from in front of the oven door there is no obstruction at all in front of said door.

WVhile I have shown the catch or attachment in connection with an oven door provided with a hinged handle it is obvious that the device is applicable to even doors having a rigid or other form of handle and further that various other changes may be made without departing from the spirit and scope to slide and swing on said guard rail to hold of my invention. the door open to different degrees and for 10 Having thus fully described my invention, displacement from in front of the door What I claim as new and desire to secure by when not in use, said catch having a p111- 5 Letters Patent of the United States isrality of door engaging parts for the pur- The combination with a stove and an oven pose specified.

door, of a guard rail extending along the front edge of the stove and a catch mounted MALVINA F. TREMAIN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Gommissioner of Patents.

" Washington, D. G. 

